kalomaze: AI safety folks and datacenter-water critics are different demographics
kalomaze · x · 2026-09-11
kalomaze argues that industry AI safety people and those pushing the datacenter water narrative are totally different demographics: safety researchers would be fine with a hypothetical guaranteed-xrisk-free version of the tech, while water-critique proponents mostly had a pre-existing axe to grind against the technology existing at all.
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